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名詞

blackwork (uncountable)

1. (sewing) A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 334:

     All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.

2. (obsolete) Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
   • 2016, Haewon Hwang, London's Underground Spaces:

     In Mary Barton (1848), the seamstress sewing black mourning clothes is referred to as being engaged in 'blackwork', while the manufacturing company, the Courtaulds, held a monopoly on crapes from the onset of funeral practices […]

3. A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.

関連する語

• redwork
• scarletwork

参考

• blackwork on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

参照

• John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary